UP AND RUNNING
Within a few minutes of having the box open, I had the QLXD24 ready to go. I love it when simplicity in design results in a quality product like this. There’s a lot going on under the hood of this half rack spaced receiver, but you need not worry about any of that, as it is designed to do the thinking for you. Upon start-up, the QLXD4 receiver scans for available frequencies, then it takes a matter of moments to sync it up to your receiver and you are ready to go. That’s it. It is about as close to plug and play as you can get with a wireless system. Should you be operating a number of these units, you can manually assign them to certain channels and sync them separately to their appropriate devices. If you are taking it one step further, Ethernet networking is available with mobile monitoring so you can control every aspect of the digital signal chain should you wish. But, for my purposes of running a single unit, it is so much simpler to just let the QLXD4 do the thinking for me.
IN THE HAND
In this system, I tested out the QLXD24/BETA58 wireless transmitter. With a pair of AA batteries inside they are supposed to run for about 9 hours, depending on conditions. So, what did it sound like? Just like a BETA58 essentially, perhaps with less noise, yet still retaining that BETA58 high frequency response. The 24 bit digital transmission means you get pretty much everything that goes in at one end coming out the same at the other. A full frequency response is delivered, just like if you were using a high quality cable, nothing is lost, even the lower frequencies. The only real issue was that I had to give it back!
